Alan Kupperberg
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Alan Kupperberg is an American comic artist known for working in both comic books and newspaper strips.
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Biography
Kupperberg grew up in New York, graduating from the High School of Art and Design in 1971.
Marvel Comics
Kupperberg began writing and drawing for Marvel Comics in 1974, mostly doing fill-ins and one-shots. Eventually, he had runs on team books like The Invaders, The Avengers, and The Defenders; and drew a number of issues of What If.
Also occasionally working as a writer, Kupperberg created the 1983 one-shot comic Obnoxio the Clown vs. The X-Men as a one-man band, handling everything from writing and illustrating to lettering, unusual for the comic industry at that time. In 1987, Kupperberg worked on both Spectacular Spider-Man and Amazing Spider-Man. From 1988–1991, Kupperberg drew many issues of Marvel Tales.
He also worked for Marvel Custom Comics, for clients such as Campbell's Soup, the U.S. Department of Energy, the Sylvan Learning Center, and The Dallas Times Herald.
DC Comics
From the mid-1980s into the early 1990s, Kupperberg illustrated such DC Comics titles as Justice League of America, Warlord, The Fury of Firestorm, DC Comics Presents, COPS, and Dragonlance. He had a long run on Blue Devil.
Newspaper strips
In 1978 Kupperberg and writer Marv Wolfman took over the Howard the Duck weekly newspaper strip with; Kupperberg also worked on the short-lived Incredible Hulk strip. His newspaper work also includes Little Orphan Annie.
Illustration and writing
Kupperberg has done illustrations for Archie Comics, National Lampoon, Cracked magazine, Spy, and McClannahan Books.
He worked on script development and character design for Sullivan Bluth Studios' 1994 animated feature Thumbelina. From 1994, he worked with Nickelodeon/Viacom on the Tom Terrific animated project.
In addition to illustration, Kupperberg has done design work and scripting for numerous advertising and production agencies. His autobiographical strips have appeared in Comic Art and in the Streetwise book.
Art Style
Known for a more "cartoony" style than many other superhero artists,[citation needed] Kupperberg seemed to specialize in nasty clowns for a while, illustrating not only Marvel's Obnoxio pieces but also National Lampoon's Evil Clown Comics.
